{"id":5942,"date":"2015-03-04T17:13:53","date_gmt":"2015-03-04T21:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/?p=5942"},"modified":"2015-03-05T12:10:08","modified_gmt":"2015-03-05T16:10:08","slug":"world-day-of-prayer-3615","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/?p=5942","title":{"rendered":"World Day of Prayer (3\/13\/15)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year&#8217;s World Day of prayer will be held at Our Lady Queen of Peace Church on Friday, <span style=\"background-color: #ffcc00;\">March\u00a013<\/span> at 1:00 PM.<\/p>\n<div class='et-box et-info'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class='et-box-content'><span style=\"color: #000000;\">NOTE:\u00a0 This was originally to be held on Friday 3\/6, but it was delayed until the 13th because of the snow storm.<\/span><\/div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000080;\">\u00a0What is the World Day of Prayer?<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>It is an ecumenical movement of women from many faith traditions who share a common day of prayer annually on the first Friday of March. Men, women and children are all invited to participate.<\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Why?<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>This global movement, begun in the U.S. in 1920, promotes justice and equality for women through prayer, partnership, service and celebration.\u00a0 We gather to affirm that prayer and action are inseparable and have immeasurable influence in the world.<\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000080;\">How?<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>Each year, one of the 170 participating countries is chosen to interpret scripture within their culture and provide a worship service for the world.\u00a0 The past two years recognized Egypt \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 and France.\u00a0 In 2015, the Bahamas invite the world to &#8220;come and be washed in God&#8217;s ever-flowing ocean of grace.&#8221;\u00a0 We will celebrate the culture of the Bahamas with music, prayer and refreshments.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">==========================<\/p>\n<p>Please join us along with people around the world for this unique experience.\u00a0 For more information about this annual event, please visit<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wdp-usa.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.wdp-usa.org<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>World Day of Prayer was held at PUMC last year.\u00a0 For more information, <a title=\"World Day of Prayer (3\/7\/14)\" href=\"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/?p=860\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year&#8217;s World Day of prayer will be held at Our Lady Queen of Peace Church on Friday, March\u00a013 at 1:00 PM. &nbsp; \u00a0What is the World Day of Prayer? It is an ecumenical movement of women from many faith traditions who share a common day of prayer annually on the first Friday of March. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,57,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evann","category-mission-global","category-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5942"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6141,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5942\/revisions\/6141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}